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The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…in the Republican Party more broadly. Especially since the raid of Trump’s Florida estate, we’ve seen an acceleration of the rhetoric and increased calls for violence against Jews on pro-Trump sites. Right-wing antisemitism is increasing at a rate even experts weren’t ready for. Yet we hardly hear an outcry compared to those in response to antisemitism on the Left. https://twitter.com/EladNehorai/status/1557420275758600192 Why is this? First, lest…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…ys false and offensive things, even though Trump has made an unprecedented number of false or misleading statements during his tenure of less than three years in office—over 10,000 of them, according to The Washington Post. Authoritarians have a very different relationship to the truth than the rest of us, so when Trump claims he had the largest inauguration crowd in history, or Jeffress spouts the absurd lie that Democrats worship an ancient Meso…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…spectives. When I taught at Eckerd College, a small liberal arts school in Florida, one of my 3-week courses was “Religious Approaches to Death.” I remember my freshmen students complaining that they had to visit funeral homes for their field trips, while other classes were able to enjoy the many outdoor features in Saint Petersburg, a gulf coast city famous for, among other things, averaging 361 days of sunshine per year. However, through our rea…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…about forever, of a very large share of the Black people living here, now numbering 42 million. As Malcolm X pointed out decades ago, it’s impossible to regard the United States as a nation of laws when those laws are very often suspended in the case of Black people. Malcolm believed, correctly, that a nation choosing to be only conditionally lawful cannot really be regarded as lawful at all—and should certainly stop its boasting about equal just…

How the “Little Sisters” Won by Losing “Religious Liberty” Case

By Patricia Miller

…Republican Party, from Chuck Norris to rank-and-file party members such as Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis, who said that “the Health and Human Services Department is forcing Catholic nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, to be complicit in abortifacients and other things that really go against core values of religious freedom.” Completely lost to most Republicans is that the Obama administration long ago caved and said that faith-based nonprofits like…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…sident hadn’t failed to keep us safe. Blitzer, for example, pointed out to Florida Senator Marco Rubio that he has said banning Muslims is unconstitutional, but that a majority of Republicans support Donald Trump’s proposal to do just that. “Why are they wrong?” Blitzer asked. The last thing Rubio, running behind Trump and new-Iowa frontrunner Ted Cruz, wants to do, of course, is tell the majority of Republicans they’re wrong. “Well, I understand…

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…it distinct from other exercises of violence to achieve power—for example, military combat. Assuming this somewhat loose definition (without reference to who the terrorists are and who the civilians might be) leaves open questions of what kind of power is exercised and to what end. These questions lie at the heart of “Islamic terrorism,” a phrase now much bandied about not just on the political far right in the U.S. and in Europe, but also in more…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…self “probably the most pro-life governor in modern times.” As governor of Florida, he signed a bill creating “Choose Life” license plates to fund controversial anti-abortion “pregnancy counseling” centers and intervened in two cases to prevent a mentally disabled rape victim and a 13-year-old girl who was a ward of the state from having abortions. He also signed a parental consent law, a TRAP law placing strict regulation on abortion clinics, and…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…there were, by the 1830s, tens of thousands of them crowding churches from Florida’s swamplands to Illinois’s prairie? Tell me more, I thought. Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture Joshua Guthman UNC Press (September 28, 2015) What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That the Primitive Baptists’ story is an unlikely one, but a vital one, an American one. Beneath that message are three stories. The first one prow…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…invitation. There was a guy who worked for a PCUSA session here in central Florida [who told] us about a marriage coming up at a church near us and said he could get us an invitation. I thought it was weird. We’d go if we were invited, but how strange to be this token couple coming to this wedding where we don’t know anyone. We have plenty of gay and lesbian friends and family who, I am just waiting on them to invite [us] not only to attend, but p…